Usability survey of biomedical question answering systems
<p>Abstract</p> <p>We live in an age of access to more information than ever before. This can be a double-edged sword. Increased access to information allows for more informed and empowered researchers, while information overload becomes an increasingly serious risk. Thus, there is...
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description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>We live in an age of access to more information than ever before. This can be a double-edged sword. Increased access to information allows for more informed and empowered researchers, while information overload becomes an increasingly serious risk. Thus, there is a need for intelligent information retrieval systems that can summarize relevant and reliable textual sources to satisfy a user's query. Question answering is a specialized type of information retrieval with the aim of returning precise short answers to queries posed as natural language questions. We present a review and comparison of three biomedical question answering systems: askHERMES (<url>http://www.askhermes.org/</url>), EAGLi (<url>http://eagl.unige.ch/EAGLi/</url>), and HONQA (<url>http://services.hon.ch/cgi-bin/QA10/qa.pl</url>).</p> |
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spelling | doaj.art-92f2453e1236455a8dbac7087b82ae6d2022-12-22T04:10:21ZengBMCHuman Genomics1479-73642012-09-01611710.1186/1479-7364-6-17Usability survey of biomedical question answering systemsBauer Michael ABerleant Daniel<p>Abstract</p> <p>We live in an age of access to more information than ever before. This can be a double-edged sword. Increased access to information allows for more informed and empowered researchers, while information overload becomes an increasingly serious risk. Thus, there is a need for intelligent information retrieval systems that can summarize relevant and reliable textual sources to satisfy a user's query. Question answering is a specialized type of information retrieval with the aim of returning precise short answers to queries posed as natural language questions. We present a review and comparison of three biomedical question answering systems: askHERMES (<url>http://www.askhermes.org/</url>), EAGLi (<url>http://eagl.unige.ch/EAGLi/</url>), and HONQA (<url>http://services.hon.ch/cgi-bin/QA10/qa.pl</url>).</p>http://www.humgenomics.com/content/6/1/17 |
spellingShingle | Bauer Michael A Berleant Daniel Usability survey of biomedical question answering systems Human Genomics |
title | Usability survey of biomedical question answering systems |
title_full | Usability survey of biomedical question answering systems |
title_fullStr | Usability survey of biomedical question answering systems |
title_full_unstemmed | Usability survey of biomedical question answering systems |
title_short | Usability survey of biomedical question answering systems |
title_sort | usability survey of biomedical question answering systems |
url | http://www.humgenomics.com/content/6/1/17 |
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